New gauged N = 8, D = 4 supergravities

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Abstract: New gaugings of four dimensional N=8 supergravity are constructed, including one which has a Minkowski space vacuum that preserves N=2 supersymmetry and in which the gauge group is broken to SU(3)xU(1)2. Previous gaugings used the form of the ungauged action which is invariant under a rigid SL(8,R) symmetry and promoted a 28-dimensional subgroup (SO(8),SO(p,8−p) or the non-semi-simple contraction CSO(p,q,8−p−q)) to a local gauge group. Here, a dual form of the ungauged action is used which is invariant under SU∗(8) instead of SL(8,R) and new theories are obtained by gauging 28-dimensional subgroups of SU∗(8). The gauge groups are non-semi-simple and are different real forms of the CSO(2p,8−2p) groups, denoted CSO∗(2p,8−2p), and the new theories have a rigid SU(2) symmetry. The five dimensional gauged N=8 supergravities are dimensionally reduced to D=4. The D=5,SO(p,6−p) gauge theories reduce, after a duality transformation, to the D=4,CSO(p,6−p,2) gauging while the SO∗(6) gauge theory reduces to the D=4,CSO∗(6,2) gauge theory. The new theories are related to the old ones via an analytic continuation. The non-semi-simple gaugings can be dualised to forms with different gauge groups.





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